I thought Stan was the home of Showtime as they claimed. I thought they had first rights to new Showtime stuff or not documentaries ? Any idea how this works ?
###March
Presto has announced the follow additions to its streaming service for March.
Presto today announced key programming coming to the streaming service in March, including the arrival of Strike Back a military TV series that follows the exploits a secretive branch of the British Defence Intelligence service, who operate several high risk missions throughout the globe. The fast-paced drama centres on two former soldiers who are tied together by a tragedy that happened in their past and who are now called upon to right wrongs around the world. Features Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead) and Australia’s Sullivan Stapleton.
Also streaming in March, Banshee brings us the story of a recently paroled master thief Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) who assumes the identity of the Sheriff in the town of Banshee. When he attempts to reunite with his former lover and partner in crime, his efforts to keep his past a secret become increasingly complicated as he resumes his life of crime and is in turn hunted by shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier.
Other hit shows set to arrive on Presto in March include: the continuing fifth season of Scandal, Halt and Catch Fire season 2 and Looking season 1.
Movie arrivals in March include: dystopian action favourite The Divergent Series: Insurgent, sci-fi psychological thriller Ex Machina, vampire drama Twilight (the full saga), Academy Award winning historical hostage drama Argo, mother-daughter musical movie Ricki and The Flash starring Meryl Streep, and dozens of others.
###TV Programming
New TV programming arriving on Presto in March includes:
Strike Back – season 1 (1 Mar)
Halt and Catch Fire – season 2 (1 Mar)
Banshee – seasons 1-2 (1 Mar)
The Wubbulous World of Dr Seuss – season 1 (1 Mar)
Looking – season 1 (9 Mar)
Jamie’s Got Tentacles – season 1 (1 Mar)
Rated A for Awesome – season 1 (1 Mar)
American Horror Story: Freak Show – season 4 (14 Mar)
###Movies
New movies joining Presto in March:
The Big White (1 Mar)
A Little Chaos (2 Mar)
Premonition (2 Mar)
The Burning Plain (3 Mar)
The Cold Light of Day (3 Mar)
The Deep End (3 Mar)
Lost River (3 Mar)
Mr. Mom (3 Mar)
The Cabin in the Woods (4 Mar)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (4 Mar)
New Year’s Eve (4 Mar)
Shorts (4 Mar)
Training Day (4 Mar )
99 Homes (5 Mar)
The Tale of Despereaux (18 Mar)
Tarzan II (18 Mar)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (19 Mar)
Lawrence of Arabia (19 Mar)
Mad Max (19 Mar)
The Sum of All Fears (19 Mar)
Breach (20 Mar)
The Campaign (20 Mar)
Cowboys & Aliens (20 Mar)
Edward Scissorhands (20 Mar)
Personal Velocity (20 Mar)
Sidewalks of New York (21 Mar)
Something to Talk About (22 Mar)
Closer (23 Mar)
Dolphin Tale (5 Mar)
Poltergeist (5 Mar)
Argo (6 Mar)
Six Degrees of Separation (6 Mar)
Wrath of the Titans (6 Mar)
The Prince (7 Mar)
Paranoia (8 Mar)
Blue Velvet (10 Mar)
What If (10 Mar)
Crocodile Hunter: The Collision Course (11 Mar)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (11 Mar)
Freaky Friday (11 Mar)
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (12 Mar)
Ex Machina (12 Mar)
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (12 Mar)
RocknRolla (12 Mar)
Changeling (13 Mar)
Insurgent (13 Mar)
Super 8 (13 Mar)
A Royal Night Out (17 Mar)
Calendar Girls (17 Mar)
Major League (17 Mar)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (18 Mar)
Backdraft (18 Mar)
Boychoir (18 Mar)
Major League II (18 Mar)
Major League: Back to the Minors (18 Mar)
Rock of Ages (18 Mar)
Nights in Rodanthe (23 Mar)
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (24 Mar)
Yentl (24 Mar)
Batman Begins (25 Mar)
Beauty and the Beast (25 Mar)
Beauty and the Beast Enchanted Christmas (25 Mar)
Beauty and the Beast: Magical World (25 Mar)
Interview with the Vampire (25 Mar)
Ricki and the Flash (26 Mar)
Ruben Guthrie (26 Mar)
Seven Psychopaths (26 Mar)
The Silence of the Lambs (26 Mar)
American Pie (27 Mar)
American Pie 2 (27 Mar)
American Pie: The Wedding (27 Mar)
The Dark Knight Rises (27 Mar)
Sideways (27 Mar)
Twilight (28 Mar)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 (28 Mar)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn Pt. 2 (28 Mar)
Twilight: The Eclipse (28 Mar)
Twilight: The New Moon (28 Mar)
The Body Guard (29 Mar)
Meet Joe Black (30 Mar)
Total Recall (30 Mar)
Morning Glory (31 Mar)
###Curated special collections
Presto’s curated special collections for March include:
GIRLFRIENDS’ GUIDE TO DIVORCE
Seasons 1 and 2 available to stream on Presto from 23 March
Presto announced today that Bravo’s critically-acclaimed, inaugural scripted series Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce will debut on the streaming service with every episode available on Presto exclusively from March 23.
Starring Lisa Edelstein (House) and inspired by the “Girlfriends’ Guide” book series by Vicki Iovine, this sparkling dramedy from creator and executive producer Marti Noxon (Glee, Mad Men, Buffy The Vampire Slayer) follows Abby McCarthy – America’s favourite self-help book author and guru – as she navigates her new life as a single woman in her 40s in Los Angeles.
After Abby publicly admits that she has separated from her husband Jake (Paul Adelstein, Scandal), America’s once-favorite girlfriend finds her career and marriage in a free fall. Turning away from her married clique and towards her new set of divorced friends, Abby sets out on a journey of self-discovery as she attempts to salvage her career, get back in the dating game and figure out her new identity as a single woman. With help from her friends – no-nonsense entertainment lawyer, Lyla (Janeane Garafolo, Reality Bites, Wet Hot American Summer), former model and budding entrepreneur, Phoebe (Beau Garrett, Tron: Legacy), commitment-phobe divorce attorney, Delia (Necar Zadegan, 24) and her blunt best friend from university, Jo (Alanna Ubach, Meet the Fockers) – Abby comically stumbles through first post-marriage hook-ups, a blog post gone horribly wrong and a Vegas trip that leads to some unexpected complications.
Guest stars in the series include Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Bernadette Peters, Carrie Fisher, Retta, Megan Hilty, Mark Valley, Jean Smart, Will Kemp, Lesley Ann Warren, Barry Bostwick and Maury Sterling.
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce is produced by Universal Cable Productions with Marti Noxon, Vicki Iovine, Meryl Poster, Robert Duncan McNeill, Carol Barbee, Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro serving as executive producers.
All episodes of Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce will be available to stream exclusively on Presto from March 23.
###April
Presto has announced the follow additions to its streaming service for April.
Jurassic World and The Affair season 2 take-off on Presto
Presto today announced key programming coming to the streaming service in April, including the exclusive arrival of one of 2015’s biggest blockbuster films and a slate of HBO original movies and miniseries’.
Streaming first on Presto in April is the second season of Showtime’s emotion filled and thought-provoking drama The Affair. Alison (Ruth Wilson, Luther) is a young woman waiting tables at a popular diner, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy. Her husband Cole (Joshua Jackson, Fringe), struggles to keep things together, both with his wife and the financially-strained ranch that has been in his family for generations. Their emotionally-charged marriage becomes even more complicated when Alison begins an affair with Noah (Dominic West, The Wire), a New York City public school teacher and aspiring novelist who is spending the summer at his in-laws’ estate nearby. Helen (Maura Tierney, NewsRadio, ER) is Noah’s college sweetheart, best friend, mother of his children, lover and wife of 17 years. Season 2 joins season 1 already streaming exclusively on Presto
More HBO hit programming due to arrive exclusively on Presto in April includes: World War II drama, The Pacific (narrated by Tom Hanks), Gulf War dramas Generation Kill (Alexander Skarsgård) and House of Saddam, Historical drama John Adams (Paul Giamatti), fictionalised docudrama Cinema Verite (James Gandolfini), and psychological drama Five Days (Hugh Bonneville).
April also sees the arrival of epic dinosaur adventure movie Jurassic World (starring Chris Pratt). Set 22 years after the events of the original Jurassic Park, this blockbuster hit features a new theme park populated with cloned dinosaurs that plunges into chaos when a genetically modified dinosaur breaks loose and goes on a rampage across the island. Jurassic World arrives along with more hit movies including: the video game-based family comedy Pixels (Adam Sandler), high speed action blockbusters The Fast and The Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Fast & Furious, supernatural horror film Unfriended, and psychological thriller Shutter Island, plus dozens of others.
###TV Programming
• The Pacific – season 1 (1 Apr)
• Generation Kill – season 1 (1 Apr)
• Cinema Verite (1 Apr)
• Life Support (1 Apr)
• Lackawanna Blues (1 Apr)
• Five Days (1 Apr)
• House of Saddam (1 Apr)
• John Adams (1 Apr)
• Tsunami: The Aftermath (1 Apr)
• The Affair – seasons 1-2 (5 Apr)
###Movies
• Bad Company (1 Apr)
• Runaway Bride (1 Apr)
• The Skeleton Key (1 Apr)
• Stardust (1 Apr)
• Along Came A Spider (2 Apr)
• The Borrowers (2 Apr)
• Miller’s Crossing (2 Apr)
• The Day The Earth Stood Still (2 Apr)
• Billy Elliot (3 Apr)
• Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of The Gods (3 Apr)
• George Of The Jungle 2 (3 Apr)
• Shutter Island (3 Apr)
• Insidious: Chapter 3 (3 Apr)
• The Time Machine (3 Apr)
• Nell (4 Apr)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (4 Apr)
• The Clearing (5 Apr)
• Romance & Cigarettes (6 Apr)
• Stranger Than Fiction (6 Apr)
• What Happens In Vegas (8 Apr)
• Unfriended (8 Apr)
• Dawn Of The Dead (8 Apr)
• Rachel Getting Married (9 Apr)
• Blonde Ambition (9 Apr)
• Snitch (9 Apr)
• Stuart Little (9 Apr)
• Goon (9 Apr)
• Big Game (9 Apr)
• G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra (9 Apr)
• The AristoCats (9 Apr)
• Gran Torino (10 Apr)
• Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F (10 Apr)
• Drive Angry (10 Apr)
• Duplicity (10 Apr)
• The Jungle Book (10 Apr)
• The Jungle Book 2 (10 Apr)
• Throw Momma From The Train (15 Apr)
• Footloose (15 Apr)
• The Final Girls (15 Apr)
• Black Sea (16 Apr)
• The Golden Compass (16 Apr)
• Chocolat (16 Apr)
• Whiteout (16 Apr)
• Jurassic World (17 Apr)
• Gun Shy (17 Apr)
• Leave It To Beaver (19 Apr)
• Cocktail (20 Apr)
• Boxcar Bertha (22 Apr)
• Just My Luck (22 Apr)
• The Fast And The Furious (22 Apr)
• Boys on the Side (23 Apr)
• The Hitcher (23 Apr)
• People Places Things (23 Apr)
• 2 Fast 2 Furious (23 Apr)
• Malibu’s Most Wanted (23 Apr)
• Pixels (24 Apr)
• Fast & Furious (24 Apr)
• The Year of Living Dangerously (24 Apr)
• A Few Best Men (25 Apr)
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (25 Apr)
• Cadet Kelly (25 Apr)
• The Kings of Mykonos (25 Apr)
• Black Or White (28 Apr)
• Son Of The Mask (29 Apr)
• Post Grad (29 Apr)
• The Unborn (29 Apr)
• P.S. (30 Apr)
• Confidence (30 Apr)
• The Fox And The Hound (30 Apr)
• The Fox And The Hound II (30 Apr)
• Four Brothers (30 Apr)
• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (30 Apr)
###Curated special collections
‘FORBIDDEN ROMANCES’
• The Affair
• Scandal
• Swingtown
• Banshee
• Mad Men
‘SWEET AND SAVOURY SEDUCTIVE CINEMA’
• Chocolat
• The Lunchbox
• Original Sin
• Woman On top
• Big Night
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Practical Magic
‘WE TOLD YOU NOT TO FEED THE ANIMALS’
• Jurassic World
• Rogue
• Cujo
• Lake Placid
• Little Shop Of Horrors
• 10,000 B.C
• Arachnophobia
‘EVERY EPISODE. BEGIN YOUR BINGE’
• American Crime
• Scandal
• Aquarius
• Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce
• Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
• Halt & Catch Fire
• A Place to Call Home
• Heroes
• Love My Way
• Mad Men
• Mr. Robot
• Ray Donovan
• Sex and the City
• The Affair
• The Bastard Executioner
• The X-Files
• Wentworth
• Weeds
• Blackadder
• Cheers
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Extras
• The Office (UK)
• Frasier
• 30 Rock
• Mrs Brown’s Boys
• Packed To The Rafters
PRESTO BECOMES THE AUSTRALIAN HOME TO EVERY EPISODE OF THE MINDY PROJECT
Every episode from Seasons 1-4 available to stream on Presto from April 1
New episodes coming to Presto – express from the U.S
Presto announced today that all 80 episodes of Seasons 1 through 4 of The Mindy Project will be available to stream from April 1. Presto subscribers will also be able to stream future episodes of The Mindy Project, with new episodes made available weekly express from the U.S. when the show returns from its Season 4 mid-season hiatus in mid-April.
With The Mindy Project now on Presto, could They Nab The Rights for US Sitcom The Goldbergs and Fast-Track Season Four?
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hope so!
I’d take out a subscription if they did. Talk about binge worthy!!
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Presto now has all the Harry Potter movies I see…
NEW EPISODES OF THE MINDY PROJECT FLY ON TO PRESTO EXPRESS FROM THE U.S. EVERY TUESDAY at 4PM AEST
Every episode from Seasons 1-4 available to stream now.
New episodes streaming weekly beginning TODAY at 4PM AEST
Season four of The Mindy Project returns from its mid-season hiatus today, flying on to Presto express from the U.S. New episodes will be available to stream every Tuesday at 4pm AEST – just hours after their U.S. broadcast on hulu.
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I cancelled my Presto subscription. No HD on the browser, limited content, too expensive and constant errors in peak hours.Sticking with Netflix and Stan. Was on a 6 month trial with an additional 3 months added on.
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I canceled mine as well. It was taking ages to load and not a lot of great content.
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I get it for free with my Foxtel subscription and never use it. The lack of HD and no 5.1 audio are the major reasons why. I watched the Home and Away telemovie and that remains the only thing I’ve watched on it to this day.
The only thing I watched was Always Greener and that was only because where we lived we only got the 1st season. The year after WIN must have changed from being seven to nine and didn’t get the last season. I should have stopped watching after the first season anyway. I looked through presto and didn’t find much worthy of a watch. Scandal would be the only thing I would consider but I have watched all of those.
Stan is adding a lot of tv shows this month , Netflix as well. What Presto does add seems to be old HBO stuff.
Even though I already have used a 6 month and added a 3 month promo code to Presto, now I get a regular email every 5 days from Quickflix with a code , telling me to trial Presto.
According to Presto they told me I can use the same credit card too. I then got another 6 month code with Telstra TV .
I wonder how many paying subscribers they have when they are so many codes out for it as it is included in Foxtel Platinum.
but still a much better movie selection than Netflix!
Coming in May:
Television
Empire Season 1 (1 May)
Scandal Season 5 Express from the US
Girls Season 1-3 (1 May)
The Mindy Project Season 4 Express from the US
The Good Wife Season 4-5 (1 May)
The Jesters Season 1-2 (2 May)
Chandon Pictures Season 1-2 (2 May)
Slugterra Season 1 (2 May)
Into the Badlands Season 1 (15 May)
Grimm Season 3 (30 May)
Movies
Terminator Genysis (1 May)
Kill Me Three Times (1 May)
Mischief (1 May)
Sucker (1 May)
Babe (1 May)
Babe: Pig In The City (1 May)
Milk (1 May)
Rock Star (1 May)
Spooks: The Greater Good (1 May)
The Exorcist (1 May)
The Face Of An Angel (1 May)
The Postman (1 May)
The Verdict (1 May)
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (1 May)
X-Men (1 May)
X-Men 2 (1 May)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (1 May)
X-Men: The Last Stand (1 May)
Catch And Release (1 May)
Dirty Sanchez: The Movie (1 May)
Exit Wounds (1 May)
Firewall (1 May)
He’s Just Not That Into You (1 May)
I Could Never Be Your Woman (1 May)
The Forgotten (1 May)
The International (1 May)
The Upside of Anger (1 May)
A Time To Kill (1 May)
Fight Club (1 May)
Runaway Jury (1 May)
The Client (1 May)
Unfaithful (1 May)
Entrapment (1 May)
Jumper (1 May)
Knowing (1 May)
LA Confidential (1 May)
Sommersby (1 May)
The Power Of One (1 May)
We Were Soldiers (1 May)
Crime + Punishment In Suburbia (1 May)
Mississippi Burning (1 May)
Moonstruck (1 May)
Overboard (1 May)
The Russia House (1 May)
Great Expectations (1 May)
Johnny Dangerously (1 May)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1 May)
Learning To Drive (1 May)
Undertow (1 May)
Chop Shop (5 May)
Mad Love (5 May)
Resident Advisors (6 May)
The Emperor’s New Clothes (6 May)
Marley & Me (6 May)
Minions (7 May)
Billy Madison (7 May)
Sabrina (7 May)
Cat From Outer Space (7 May)
The Age of Adaline (8 May)
Curious George 3: Back To The Jungle (9 May)
The Cheetah Girls (10 May)
Trainwreck (12 May)
Friday The 13th (13 May)
The Colour Of Money (13 May)
Infintely Polar Bear (13 May)
Mulan (14 May)
Mulan II (14 May)
Just A Kiss (15 May)
Joe Dirt II: Beautiful Loser (15 May)
War Room (15 May)
The Chronicles of Riddick (16 May)
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (16 May)
The Cheetah Girls 2 (17 May)
Dan In Real Life (20 May)
Johnny English (22 May)
The Rainmaker (22 May)
The Cheetah Girls: One World (24 May)
Oliver & Company (25 May)
Grosse Pointe Blank (26 May)
Alice In Wonderland (26 May)
Get Santa (26 May)
How To Make Love Like… (26 May)
The Truman Show (29 May)
Ted 2 (30 May)
Tex (30 May)
Curated Collections
All The Women Who Are Independent
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce
The Mindy Project
Wentworth
The Good Wife
Sex and the City
Girls
Scandal
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Your Next Binge Obsession
Empire
The Americans
Modern Family
Mr Robot
Bates Motel
American Crime
Haven
Banshee
Bitten
Hell On Wheels
Rogue
Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce
The Mindy Project
Logie Winning Drama
All Saints
Always Greener
A Place To Call Home
Devil’s Playground
Love My Way
Redfern Now
The Slap
Tim Winton’s Cloud Street
Wentworth
Tangle
Home and Away: Highlights
Trashy TV (You Know you’ll love)
Botched Up Brides
Bringing Sexy Back
Brynne: My Bedazzled Life
Formal Wars
The Queen of Versailles
World’s Richest Dogs
Young, Lazy and Driving Us Crazy
What Really Happens In Thailands
Love to LOL?
The Mindy Project
Fraiser
The Inbetweeners
The Office
30 Rock
Black Comedy
Louie
Modern Family
Parks and Recreation
World’s Greatest Stand Up
The Big Bang Theory
Season two of MR ROBOT will stream express from the U.S., first on Presto weekly from July 14. Season one is available to view now.
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I wonder why they still haven’t got HD on the browsers for their videos. The other two services do. Even Stan has started to put closed captions out there.
Maybe it is just me , I find Netflix’s originals and Stan’s shows at times more interesting than Presto.